¿Es viable usar un servidor ProLiant BL460C como esclavo de audio (DAW slav

Carol James
por hace 3 semanas
Hello everyone! I've been following the hardware threads here on Hispasonic for years, and today I've decided to write because a rather "geeky" question has come up. You see, I've gotten my hands on a ProLiant BL460C server with a 10-core Xeon processor at 2.5GHz  and a good amount of RAM. My original idea was to set it up as a slave node using Vienna Ensemble Pro to offload work from my iMac, especially when I load Kontakt templates that take up gigabytes and gigabytes of space.
However, I'm running into the reality of enterprise hardware. The specific issue that's giving me a headache is the connectivity of these "blade" servers. Since they're designed to go in a specific chassis, powering them and getting a stable audio signal (even over the network) is proving to be a bigger logistical challenge than I expected. My personal experience with tower PCs has always been simple: plug in a sound card and you're good to go, but this is a whole other level of complexity. Plus, the fan noise is a serious problem; It sounds like I have a jet engine in my room, which is an absolute disaster for mixing if I don't have it in another room.
I'm very attracted to the raw power of those 10 cores for synthesis and rendering, but I'm starting to suspect that I might have gotten myself into too much trouble by trying to use hardware that wasn't designed for audio.
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Memory is expensive as fuck, the only reason to suffer that pain in the ass IMHO is to use a big amount of RAM for heavy libraries, otherwise I would use just one up to date computer, you can get good multi-thread performance even with an Intel Core Ultra 5 245K for 245€. Easy to cool in a normal case with a normal heatsink (100€ or so, both components), no worries about noise...
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por hace 1 semana
#1 Blade servers are not intended for user friendly management, they're designed for remote access, even for OS install, sometimes they need a dedicated SATA expansion to install an internal OS.
There are better enterprise solutions using DDR4 but they use to be noisy as fuck, my HPE ML-110 G9 server can host a 4th gen Core Xeon 18 core CPU and keep the noise under 50dB (E5-2686 V3) while holding 4 DDR4 slots (up to 128 Gb), but under heavy CPU load it becomes louder than a hair dryer.
Blades use high speed fans that use to keep the noise over 65dB.
This is a Gen11 ML110, maybe a better choice (DDR5):

https://serverorbit.com/buy-hpe-ml110-gen11-server-p55535-001-3408u-1p-32g-8sff-800w/

You can also try an "old" DDR4 one like the Gen9. Buy the cheapest CPU/RAM option and then buy a better CPU of your choice with high CPU freq, usually E5-268*/269*
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